Weird Names but Great Attention Candy Booming

Just what does it take for a consumer product to attract attention? Well for one, unique names are a good way to kick it off. There may be a gamble but if you look at the world today, just consider where most of the attention is pointing to? Controversies and making use of touted tags that attract all the attention.

In a manner of speaking, it is marketing bait in itself. Some may call it an awkward way of doing business but if you are luring in the market, isn’t that a sign of better things to come? Apparently that is the case for Carmel-based Candy Dynamics in making a name for itself with its unusual “double-action” sour recipe, eye-catching packaging and unforgettable names like Toxic Waste Hazardously Sour Candy, Nuclear Sludge and Hi-Voltage Bubble Gum.

So before you go on judging how outrageous the brand and product name may be, look again. Success may perhaps be at their fingertips if they manage it perfectly.

“If all a company in this sector is doing is making the same candy at the same price point with different packaging, you might as well kiss them goodbye,” said Richard Feinberg, director of The Center for Customer Driven Quality at Purdue University and a professor of retail management. “Making an entry and surviving in this market is next to impossible. But miracles do happen.”

(Source) Indianapolis Business Journal


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Hair Genesis Uses New Advertising Approach

You may want to call it a familiar tune of rewarding advertising affiliates but providing a certain percentage for sales in exchange for helping in the advertising mix does seem to be the feasible way to go about embarking on a credible business these days. But while many are apprehensive, it really depends on how lucrative your percentage and commission will be.

Also, it depends on what you are marketing. In this case, hair-loss solutions are slowly but surely growing in demand and for advertisers that may be hitting the right market, it can indeed turn into something beneficial if you commission the right advertising arm.

Hair Genesis™, announced today that it will be paying for its print advertising in newspapers and magazines nationwide based on a percentage of sales the print ads generate in each publication, courtesy of MediaBids’ Per-Inquiry (PI) Advertising Program.

MediaBids will provide the Hair Genesis™ ad, to newspapers and magazines nationwide that sign up to participate in MediaBids’ PI Print Advertising program. Hair Genesis™ will pay newspapers and magazines 20% of the sale price generated by each customer’s order.

(Source) PR.com


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